Motif
fiery pit as instrument of religious persecution
fiery_pit_as_instrument_of_religious_persecution
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Hell and Punitive Fire. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1779-1828 confidence: high
Yusef, surnamed Dhu Nows, is described as persecuting those who would not become Jews, with the common torture of throwing them into a “glowing pit of fire,” whence he was called “the Lord of the Pit”; the persecution is said to be mentioned in the Koran.
The passage identifies the glowing pit of fire as the common torture used in Dhu Nows's persecution and links it to the title Lord of the Pit.
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